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Re: Higher Screen Resistor Values - Tried It?

8/28/2000 3:05 AM

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Re: Higher Screen Resistor Values - Tried It? Peter,     Thanks for your reply. I know that lots of folks have used 1.5k resistors with 6L6s, especially guys who swap in EL34s. That is why I decided to take my screen resistors up to 2.4k and see what happened. Like you said you saw with 1.5k, I didn't see a whole lot of tonal difference using 2.4k.     Recently, there has been a lot of talk on this board about glowing screens on KT66 reissues and 6V6 tubes. Higher screen resistor values can protect against this, and my tests seem to show that the protection comes without much or any damage to tone. Nowadays, with new tubes being made that are not as robust as older models, using larger value screen resistors seems like a reasonable safety precaution to take.     Does anyone else have any thoughts or sound experiments using higher-than-usual screen resistors in their amps? The more opinions the better ...     Reverb